Speed Workshops
How to develop Speed, Acceleration and Agility for multi-directional sports
Becoming a faster more powerful and agile athlete will make you a winning athlete.
The pursuit of increased speed is the holy grail of sports performance – coaches and athletes from all sports simply want more. It’s one of those physical attributes that you just can’t have too much of! This workshop will tell you and crucially show you how to speed up your performance or of those you coach. Suitable for male and female football, rugby, hockey, tennis, badminton, squash players and their coaches
Speed and quickness are skills that can be taught. The workshop will show you how by using a number of specialised acceleration training techniques and sport specific conditioning protocols, that stimulate both the muscular and the nervous system. By the end of the workshop you or your athletes will have skills and knowledge that will put them in front of the opposition
Areas covered include:
- Theory and coaching methodology
- Biomechanics of multidirectional sport
- Dynamic turning
- Dynamic stopping
- Dynamic acceleration
- Dynamic lateral movement
- Anticipatory agility
- Explosiveness training
- Practical’s - put theory into practice and see just how the techniques work
Who is the Speed, Acceleration and Agility for multi-directional sport workshop
aimed at?
Coaches and athletes from football, rugby, hockey, tennis, badminton and squash who want to learn how to develop and coach faster speed
No matter what your starting point you can get faster!
Where: St Mary’s College
Times: 9 Am to 5 Pm
Cost: £125
All participants will receive a handbook of the training drills and theory presentation
Agenda
1. Theory presentation
- Biomechanics of multidirectional sport
- How to develop speed & acceleration
- Explosiveness training
- Long term player development
- When & how to train?
- The importance of functional strength
- Question & answer session
2. Practical session
Coaching sessions on:
- Quickness
- Explosiveness
- Acceleration
- Complex Speed
- Strength Development
- Power Development
- Question & Answer session
You will learn:
- What points to coach?
- What to observe?
- How to correct bad technique?
- When and how to put on a speed session?
- What intensity to train at?
All participants will receive a handbook of the training drills and theory presentation.
Feedback from previous Speed Workshops
Thank you so much for the wonderful presentations & workshops you provided here in Rochester. My husband and I loved it, and plan on putting
much of it to use within our college women’s program. Thank you so much. We have been inspired by the small window of knowledge you’ve given us.
Tracey Britton, Women's Soccer Coach, Academic Advisor, Rochester, NY
I attended a Mike Antonides speed and acceleration workshop yesterday here in Meath, in Ireland. It really blew me away. His knowledge was simply amazing. He spoke at first for 2 hours and I think it was the fastest two hours ever. It felt like 10 mins! His insights into all things sport related were brilliant.
I'm a teacher myself and I could spot straight away that Mike is certainly a great teacher! Not only did he make great points- he backed up every point with a story which really made it stick out in one's memory. I've been to a few different coaching seminars etc over the past few years since I started coaching teams but Mike's presentation simply blew the rest out of the water.
Ronán Carley, Navan, Ireland.
Mike I want to thank you again for putting on such a wonderful coaching clinic. Everyone I have spoken to thought it was so good. The kids all say it was most intense practice and exciting they have ever had and the coaches are saying it was that it was excellent and that they learnt so much it has changed the way they coach!
My trainers and I are getting together Wednesday evening to review everything.
Thanks again for lending us your time and expertise. It was a pleasure to work with you and we want you back next year.
Susan Romero, Texas Rush
Dear Mike,
Thank you very much for your excellent workshop yesterday. I know that we will all take something away from yesterday and it won’t be just a few bruises. I don’t think coaching will ever be the same again at Great Notley. Within minutes of the completion of the workshop I heard coaches planning how they were going to improve their training sessions and match days. Thanks once again.
Great Notley Youth Club, UK
Mike,
We started preseason on Friday, and have been incorporating speed sessions of the workshop right after their dynamic warm-up for about 15 to 20 minutes. It has been very helpful, and translates easily right into training. Both coaches and I are putting it to great use. Thank you so much!
John Woodcock, Head Coach, Greenbay Tigers
Hi Mike,
The conference and feedback from the Speed Workshop was such a success that I have received a lot of enquiries and feedback to see if I would organise another weekend event on speed and power so we can bring you back to county Mayo. The feedback was ALL very positive and you made a big impact on everyone with your knowledge and coaching skills
Again, Many Thanks.
Martin McGuire, SISM
P.S. I appreciate that Mike is a busy man with all the various teams etc he's involved with but if you could mention to him that he had a very happy customer at his workshop in Meath in Ireland that would be fab!!
The course will be run by: Mike Antoniades
Mike is the founder and Coaching Director of Sport Dimensions, a company specialising in Speed Coaching, Strength Training and Rehabilitation after injury or surgery.
Mike has been a coach for 28 years and has worked in the UK, Europe and the USA. He is a qualified UEFA “A” licensed coach, speed coach, strength & conditioning coach and rehabilitation specialist. He has worked as a coach at professional and academy level in the UK and Europe and works as a coaching consultant for a number of professional football and rugby clubs, as well as track and field athletes in the UK and Europe.
Clients include, athletes from Chelsea FC and the Chelsea Academy, Stoke City, Crystal Palace, Ipswich Town, Celtic, Blackburn, QPR, Italian Football Federation, Saracens, Bath and Harlequins rugby teams, GB Bobsleigh, as well as winter and summer GB Gold Medal winning Olympians.
Mike runs coaching workshops and seminars on speed and power development, and rehabilitation and is a guest lecturer at Sheffield University.
Mike is also the author of the best selling DVD on developing speed in football called ‘Feel the Speed’. He is also the co- author of ‘My Travel Fitness’ a book on getting fit and staying fit while you travel.
He has been featured on television and in a number of newspapers and magazines for his work with elite athletes, such as Peak Performance, Running Fitness, The Times, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Ultra-FIT. His training methodologies have also been highlighted on the BBC Sports Academy.
Peak Performance’s John Shepherd and ex- international long jumper and speed expert and author of 5 best selling books including the Complete Guide to Sports Training will assist Mike with the delivery of the workshop
Coaching Clinics
This consists of a 3 hour presentation on How to Develop Soccer Athletes from 8 years old to professional level and how best to develop Soccer Speed. This will cover best practice, training methodologies and specifically the key factors in development:
- The Optimal Training period - Who, When, Why & How
- The Neural Stimulus - Training the Neuromuscular system
- Motor Development - Movement Patterns for soccer
- Frappier Acceleration Training Model
- Soccer Specific Speed Training – Intensity & Technique coaching
- Mental Strength training and preparation for coaches & Athletes
Followed by two Coaching clinics, for Coaches and players, on the coaching technique, drills and training methodologies. The Ground based programme will be based upon the development of Quickness, Active, Reactive and Complex speed which is required in Soccer. Technical advice and knowledge transfer will be given on how to coach soccer speed.
What will you learn?
If you are a coach or a parent:
- The Long Term training methodologies used by elite European teams to best develop soccer athletes from 8 years old to professional level
- How to develop Speed, technique and movement training sessions for different age groups
- What to observe
- What to coach
- What to correct
- How to incorporate speed, technique and skill training into the coaching sessions
If you are a soccer athlete:
- How to develop Quickness, active and reactive speed
- The best age to train movement & speed
- How to develop into a better soccer athlete
- What skills and drills to practice
- How many times a week
- How achieve skill fluency
If you are interested in learning more about this programme, and booking a workshop email us at info@sportdimensions.com or contact us for more information or call anytime on + 44 (0) 208 563 0007
